Twitter:The New Batch

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Started frequenting Bluesky again recently. Feels like it's on the up a bit.
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Maybe I should dip back in there, but it felt like a bunch of milquetoast white dudes trying to sound smart. Which is probably most of the content on the internet, and in podcasts. But at bluesky there wasn't anything else to distract me from the sadness of that.
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garyclark wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 8:25 pm Maybe I should dip back in there, but it felt like a bunch of milquetoast white dudes trying to sound smart. Which is probably most of the content on the internet, and in podcasts. But at bluesky there wasn't anything else to distract me from the sadness of that.
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That’s a pull from wayyyy back!
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rass wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:13 pmLove how the auto-play videos now roll into those ads that just auto-open the App Store. Fun.
When watching a video, click settings. You can turn off the auto-play function for the next video. Not entirely sure if that will solve that issue, but I haven't seen it in a couple days since I did it.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:43 am
rass wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:13 pmLove how the auto-play videos now roll into those ads that just auto-open the App Store. Fun.
When watching a video, click settings. You can turn off the auto-play function for the next video. Not entirely sure if that will solve that issue, but I haven't seen it in a couple days since I did it.
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I think that might only work on iOS.
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rass wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 8:12 am
DSafetyGuy wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:43 am
rass wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:13 pmLove how the auto-play videos now roll into those ads that just auto-open the App Store. Fun.
When watching a video, click settings. You can turn off the auto-play function for the next video. Not entirely sure if that will solve that issue, but I haven't seen it in a couple days since I did it.
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Ditto! I never thought to check for that.
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Shirley wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 12:16 pm
rass wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 8:12 am
DSafetyGuy wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:43 am
rass wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:13 pmLove how the auto-play videos now roll into those ads that just auto-open the App Store. Fun.
When watching a video, click settings. You can turn off the auto-play function for the next video. Not entirely sure if that will solve that issue, but I haven't seen it in a couple days since I did it.
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Ditto! I never thought to check for that.
It got tweeted into my timeline a couple times, so I am just parroting.
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So...what particularly hilarious comedy am I missing?
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You should probably tell us.
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mister d wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:31 pm You should probably tell us.
You see, now I think you and Brown set me up. That's funny.
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mister d wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:31 pm You should probably tell us.
So, I guess it's related to Shannon Sharpe being live on instagram during an intimate moment.
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Giff wrote: Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:38 pm Keith Olbermann too.
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A_B wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:44 am
mister d wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:31 pm You should probably tell us.
So, I guess it's related to Shannon Sharpe being live on instagram during an intimate moment.
And my video social feeds are now full of erectile dysfunction ads featuring Shannon saying something about their pill assisting with the success of that intimate moment... I guess... I scroll past it so fast I'm sort of unclear what the angle is... for the ad.
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:09 pm
A_B wrote: Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:44 am
mister d wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:31 pm You should probably tell us.
So, I guess it's related to Shannon Sharpe being live on instagram during an intimate moment.
And my video social feeds are now full of erectile dysfunction ads featuring Shannon saying something about their pill assisting with the success of that intimate moment... I guess... I scroll past it so fast I'm sort of unclear what the angle is... for the ad.
Depends on how well the pill worked.
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A_B wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 6:52 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 4:52 pm
A_B wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:08 pm You like and retweet something because it's your internet buddy's piece and now I'm apparently a Syracuse recruiting mark.

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This may be the first time this has happened but this appeared on my feed from my small town. I know EXACTLY where this person was standing when they took this picture. It's about 5-6 miles form my home growing up.



I'm sure those of you who live in big cities or at the Griffith Observatory don't even notice it anymore when you see it.
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Very cool.
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City stuff doesn't do anything for me but seeing the kids' future HS in Garden State or unexpected (to me) shots all around the Vassar campus in some terrible streaming show my wife watched is always fun. Best example is the Dimpus Burger in Super Troopers being a burger king right around where I grew up.
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probably should be in another thread but a week or 2 ago The Natural was on TV and at this scene:

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I'm the DiCaprio-pointing-at-the-TV gif for any place I even remotely remember seeing in person.
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LOL
i'm exactly the same, family just rolls their eyes at this point (esp. the number of Vancouver locales notably in commercials)
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Anyone else prepared to completely delete the app depending on the election results? With the recent rhetoric about dealing with “radical leftists” with the military and the revelation of musk coordinating with the trump campaign, it seems like a no-brainer.
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Giff wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 7:26 pm Anyone else prepared to completely delete the app depending on the election results? With the recent rhetoric about dealing with “radical leftists” with the military and the revelation of musk coordinating with the trump campaign, it seems like a no-brainer.
I hadn't thought about it, but it's worth considering. If the concern is fear that the Trump Gestapo is going to come after you for your posts, I think it's too late to prevent that. Twitter probably has your full history whether you delete your account or not.
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If you do, lock your account to prevent someone from hacking it.
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A_B wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:54 pmand henceforth I imagine I’ll be Old …we…t spot AB.
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I don't like the joke for ratio reasons.
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It should be 1/4 so for that reason I’m out.
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govmentchedda wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2024 10:18 pm
A bit on the back story on this (gift link): Son writes hilarious, loving obituary for his dad: ‘He is God’s problem now’
When Charles Boehm sat down in his Houston home to write his father’s obituary, he was stumped.

“I’d never written an obituary before, so I decided to Google, ‘What do you put in an obituary?’” said Boehm. His father, Robert Adolph Boehm, died Oct. 6 at age 74 after falling and hitting his head in his Clarendon, Tex., apartment.

Boehm, 41, found the usual tips online about including a summary of the person’s life and a list of survivors. Then he stumbled upon an old obituary for Joe Heller of Centerbrook, Conn.

“Joe Heller made his last undignified and largely irreverent gesture on September 8, 2019, signing off on a life, in his words, ‘generally well-lived and with few regrets,” it began. “When the doctors confronted his daughters with the news last week that ‘your father is a very sick man,’ in unison they replied, ‘you have no idea.’”
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:46 am If you do, lock your account to prevent someone from hacking it.
I think I need a break from Twitter for at least a few days. How do you go about locking an account? I couldn't find it in mobile app, but I am also devolving into a much bigger idiot than I was before.
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A_B wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2024 10:23 amI am also devolving into a much bigger idiot than I was before.
It's important to never stop growing.
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I've been happy with Bluesky, especially since so many people I followed on Twitter have now migrated over. And, Elon is such an asshole, with what he is doing in Pennsylvania, and with the new terms of service at X, etc. etc. etc.

So, I just deactivated my Twitter/X account, dumping my 1,000 followers. I feel like I just quit smoking or something.
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I checked Bluesky the other day, after the Twitter announcement, and found that that vast majority of my follows still aren't posting over there. My whole feed is like 3 people posting.
Totally Kafkaesque
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